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Thank you! Books are my biggest source of income, but "big" is relative here: I am earning about $500 per month in revenues. This is mostly a problem visibilit
by nils-m-holm 3y ago
Thank you!
Books are my biggest source of income, but "big" is relative here: I am earning about $500 per month in revenues. This is mostly a problem visibility, I think. Most people stumble across my books by accident. Reviews, presence on the front page of HN, etc. usually increase revenues significantly for one month.
Regarding FORTH, lets see. The code is already there: http://t3x.org/t3xforth/ http://t3x.org/t3xforth/
- Archbtw97543 3y agoThanks for being so transparent
- nils-m-holm 3y agoSure, no problem :)
- winter_blue 3y ago$500 isn’t really enough to live on — do you have a job that you use to support yourself (or do you live in a low cost-of-living country)?
- nils-m-holm 3y agoI have multiple sources of income, but book revenues are the biggest one. The area I live in is a rather expensive one, but I pay no rent, which helps. By the standard of our country I qualify as "poor", but I do not mind much. A little bit of safety would be nice, but I do not need much to live comfortably.
- tiberious726 3y agoThis is great quality work---you'd crush it writing technical documentation or putting together technical internal corporate training programs.
- nils-m-holm 3y agoI tried that some time ago, but do not seem to be compatible with all the business stuff. Thanks anyway! :)
- pamoroso 3y agoNils, regarding visibility, have you considered setting up a Mastodon account? Yesterday I shared on Mastodon a link to your book and my post got 28 reshares, 42 likes, and half a dozen comments. And I'm not even the author of the book. In the Fediverse people do notice you, read what you write, and click your links. Which is mind blowing for those used to traditional social platforms.
- nils-m-holm 3y agoThank you, but I do not even know what Mastodon or the Fediverse are. :) Could you point me to some resources that would get me started? Preferably to something for the social media-illiterate! Which software to use (on BSD), where to register (if that is a thing), etc. That would be cool!
- 7thaccount 3y agoFediverse refers to a collection of decentralized applications that use some kind of common protocol. Like instead of centralized Twitter, you could choose Mastodon and so on. My understanding is very basic though. Long story short, I'd love to see you advertise some more. I'm not sure how you'd reach your typical audience though.
- nils-m-holm 3y ago> Long story short, I'd love to see you advertise some more. Let's see. I have had a look at Mastodon and all I see at the moment is a wall of random distractions. Maybe I am missing something, though. I will investigate further. On HN, for example, there are just headlines and it takes me maybe a minute to scan the front page. Mastodon looks pretty chaotic and time-consuming compared to that.
- 7thaccount 3y agoOh I agree and of similar mind to yourself. I was just answering the question above about Mastodon. Regarding advertising...idk, but there should be some kind of option for you out there. HN is of course a good place for this kind of thing. Is that lambda the ultimate blog still a thing? Not sure how many people listen to the arraycast podcast, or if you're comfortable with that format...but I'm sure they'd be interested in your work on Klong and the implementation choices.
- 7thaccount 3y agoAwesome Forth implementation! I'd love to read a high level book on the implementation too once you get around to it!
- nils-m-holm 3y agoThanks! I will keep it in mind!